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February 28, 2018

EPA Event: Mission Accomplished - The EU-Japan EPA Agreement: A Time to Celebrate.

On February 28, the EBC in collaboration with the Delegation of the EU to Japan, and the EU-Japan for Industrial Cooperation, held a seminar and reception entitled, Mission Accomplished - The EU-Japan EPA Agreement: A Time to Celebrate. More than 200 people from companies and embassies attended the event.

The EBC Legal Services Committee together with the American Chamber of Commerce issued a joint statement on the efforts of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to develop and support the development of an international centre in Japan. At the same time the two organisations pointed out a couple areas where the MOJ and the Japanese Government would have to improve to make Tokyo or any other city in Japan a successful centre for arbitration.

The EBC is pleased to announce that its 2017 Report on the Japanese Business Environment has been published and is now available. Entitled, "First Milestone Achieved", the report is timely. The EU-Japan EPA was just been concluded two weeks ago and is the first major milestone referred to in the title. It has taken more than four years of negotiations but finally both the EU and Japan have now committed to a new economic relationship, which will promote free and fair trade between two of the most important global economies. Read the report here: English / Japanese

December 11, 2017

EU-Japan EPA Negotiations Concluded

The EBC is delighted to announce that the EU and Japan concluded the EU-Japan EPA in Brussels on Friday, December 8. This agreement comes more than ten years after the EBC first requested the EU and Japanese Authorities to negotiate an economic integration agreement. It is due to come into effect during 2019. The content is comprehensive and deep and covers many non-tariff barriers submitted by the EBC to the EU negotiators. We compliment the European Commission negotiators on their success.

Based on survey results, JETRO has just published "JETRO Invest Japan Report 2017," a comprehensive report covering recent trends in inward FDI to Japan and related measures of the Japanese government, operations of foreign-affiliated companies and their perception of Japan's business environment and JETRO's FDI promotion activities. This is the third publication following the 2015 & 2016 editions.The reports are available on the website:English: https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/reports.htmlJapanese: https://www.jetro.go.jp/invest/reference.html